If I want to convert an MP3 to a MID file, looks like it is an option in 1.3.10, but it is grayed out. Do I have to install a plug in or ? ? ? ?
Thanks,
Harvey
Export Midi is grayed out
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Re: Export Midi is grayed out
I can understand converting to MIDI under some very restricted circumstances, like one instrument playing during an entire performance, but not just any old MP3 file.
MIDI is an instruction set, not a sound file like WAV or MP3.
[Press B4 medium hard for three seconds on a Grand Piano then let go with five second sustain]
That's one MIDI instruction. When you run that instruction through a MIDI interpreter, the interpreter will produce one musical note that you and the dog can hear (B above A-440). Most computers have a musical interpreter for MIDI, but you usually have to have a keyboard of some kind to make MIDI files. My sister had a "fake" keyboard on the screen and she could "press" keys and it would make a MIDI file. You could do that.
So you could have software that would make MIDI instructions out of a simple, single instrument playing sound file, you couldn't do it with more than one.
What's the job or show?
Koz
MIDI is an instruction set, not a sound file like WAV or MP3.
[Press B4 medium hard for three seconds on a Grand Piano then let go with five second sustain]
That's one MIDI instruction. When you run that instruction through a MIDI interpreter, the interpreter will produce one musical note that you and the dog can hear (B above A-440). Most computers have a musical interpreter for MIDI, but you usually have to have a keyboard of some kind to make MIDI files. My sister had a "fake" keyboard on the screen and she could "press" keys and it would make a MIDI file. You could do that.
So you could have software that would make MIDI instructions out of a simple, single instrument playing sound file, you couldn't do it with more than one.
What's the job or show?
Koz